Apple
Director, Automation & Tools - Camera & Photos
$311K–$497K
Cupertino, California · Director · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering, automation, or developer productivity tooling; 8+ years of engineering leadership, including 3+ years managing managers and senior managers as a Director.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree is a plus.
About the job
Leads the Camera & Photos Automation & Tools organization, building automation systems and AI-enabled tools to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery.
What you'll do
- Set strategy for automation and tooling; build tools that reduce manual work and improve test coverage and reliability.
- Drive agentic AI adoption for test creation, debugging, validation, and workflow orchestration; scale CI/CD systems for imaging pipelines.
- Partner across engineering, QA, and infrastructure; establish improvement metrics and hire, mentor, and grow the team.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, automation, or developer productivity tooling.
- 8+ years of engineering leadership, including 3+ years managing managers and senior managers as a Director.
- Strong background in test automation, CI/CD systems, or large-scale developer infrastructure, with a track record of improving engineering velocity and product quality at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with imaging systems, camera pipelines, or media processing workflows.
- Experience building or integrating AI/ML systems into engineering workflows, or with simulation, synthetic data generation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or developer platforms.
Pay
$311,100 and $496,900 USD base salary
Tools
CI/CD, LLMs
AI focus
Drive adoption of agentic AI systems for test creation, debugging, validation, and workflow orchestration; build or integrate AI/ML into engineering workflows.
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